n. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

n. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

n. A weight of twenty pounds.

n. The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

n. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

n. The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.

n. the grade received on an examination, such as those given in school or as a qualifying examination for a job or admission to school; -- it may be expressed as a percentage of answers which are correct, or as a number or letter.

intransitive v. To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.

intransitive v. To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.

intransitive v. To run up a score, or account of dues.

intransitive v. To succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest.

intransitive v. To purchase drugs illegally.

transitive v. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow.

transitive v. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something.

transitive v. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

transitive v. To engrave, as upon a shield.

transitive v. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

transitive v. To write down in proper order and arrangement. See Score, n., 9.

transitive v. To mark with parallel lines or scratches.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make scores or cuts in or upon; mark with incisions, notches, or grooves; furrow; slash; specifically, to make a long shallow cut in (cardboard or very thick paper), so that the card or paper can be bent without breaking, as for book-covers or folded cards.

To incise; engrave.

To stripe; braid.

To mark or record by a cut or score; in general, to mark; note; record.

To set down, enter, or charge as a debt or debtor: sometimes with up.

To succeed in making or winning and having entered to one's account or credit, as points, hits, runs, etc., in certain games; make a score of: as, he scored twenty runs; to score another victory.

In music:

To write out in score; transcribe.

Same as orchestrate: as, the movement is scored for brass and strings only.

To arrange for a different instrument.

Milit., to produce erosion of (the bore of a gun) by the explosion of large charges.

To keep the score or reckoning; act as scorer.

To make points or runs in a game; succeed in having points or runs entered to one's credit or account; also, to be a winner or have the advantage: as, in the first inning he failed to score; A struggled hard, but B scored.

To run up a score; be or become a purchaser on credit.

A Middle English form of scour.

In lumbering, to chip off the side of a log to a line, preparatory to facing it by hewing.

Specifically, in archery, to keep a record of all the shots of one or several archers; make an entry on such a record. By the present method of scoring, hits in the gold, red, blue, black, and white are scored 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 respectively. See target, 2.

In horse-racing, to try for a start.

To part or tend to part along the elements of the surface: said of castings which split from unequal contraction on cooling of the various parts.

In geology, to erode in striæ or grooves: said of glaciers. See rock-scoring.

n. A notch; a crack; a fissure; a cleft.

n. Especially, a notch or cut made on a tally in keeping count of something: formerly a usual mode of reckoning; also, the tally or stick itself; hence, any mark used in reckoning or keeping count.

n. A reckoning or account kept by scores, marks, or otherwise, as the reckoning for unpaid potations marked with chalk on the tap-room door of a public house; hence, a reckoning or account in general: as, to keep the score.

n. The marks, or the sum of the marks, placed to one's debit; amount due; debt.

n. The aggregate of points made by contestants in certain games or matches: as, he makes a good score at cricket or base-ball; the score stood 5 to 1.

n. The detailed record or register of the various points or items of play made by players in a game or by competitors in a match.

n. Account; reason; ground; motive.

n. A line drawn; a long superficial scratch or mark.

n. Specifically, the line at which a marksman stands in target-shooting, or which forms the “scratch” or startingpoint in a race.

n. In music, a written or printed draft or copy of a composition on a set of two or more staffs braced and barred together.

n. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally, or a separate series of marks; twenty.

n. In old archery, twenty yards: thus, a mark of twelve score meant a mark at the distance of 240 yards.

n. Twenty pounds weight: as, a score of meal. [Ireland and West of Eng.]

n. Nautical: The groove cut in the side and bottom of a block or deadeye for the strapping to fit in.

n. A notch or groove made in a piece of timber or metal to allow another piece to be neatly fitted into it.

n. In archery, a record of all the shots of an archer; a record of all the shots of all the archers in a shooting-match; the sum of all the units won by an archer in a round. See round, 7 .

To be honest Madge is pretty awful in almost every movie role she chooses Evita was a musical performance above anything else, but Die Another Day bears special mention for both her equally dogawful contribution to the title score, and hopelessly flimsy cameo appearance as a lesbian fencing instructor who jabs "I don't like cockfights".

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